About this Project

Joining the United States, Europe and Russia as major powers, countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa are demanding greater influence on the global order. As a result, global norms such as sovereignty and non-intervention are evolving in an increasingly contested way. The debate about a responsibility to protect civilians from mass atrocities is a prime example of this dynamic.To examine this process of norm evolution, researchers at seven academic institutions in Europe, Brazil, China and India collaborated in a project called Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect. More